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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Catulus

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CAT'ULUS. A chain attached to an iron collar (collare) round the neck, like a dog's chain by which runaway slaves, when recaptured, were brought back to their masters. (Lucil. Sat. xxix. 15. ed. Gerlach. Cum manicis, catulo, collarique, with manacles, leading chain, and neck collar.) The illustration (Catulus/1.1), from the Column of Antonine, representing a barbarian captive, shows both the collar and chain attached to it, as mentioned by Lucilius.

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